#news: dropping #GLP-1 agonists like #Ozempic (though this trial was tirzepatide, aka Zepbound) results in 82% of cases of regaining more than 25% of the lost weight, in 57% of cases of regaining more than 50%, and 24% of cases of regaining more than 75%, with corresponding worsening or not of other metabolically-induced problems. #medicine
list of all #PostScript operators (charpath, cvs, show, ashow, kshow, etc.)
early radio control used an “escapement” like a watch escapement where each solenoid pulse would allow a pawl to rotate by a discrete amount. Digital radio control preceded analog radio control. #history
#PDF scan of an early TUGboat introducing the new non-36-bit #TeX #fonts metrics format TFM. #file-format
#TeX #fonts metrics format. #file-format
a #PDF of the standard #PostScript #fonts
table of #PostScript character names and the corresponding #HTML entity names
#RFC 2044 in 01996 described UTF-8
#history of #Lemelson’s shameless abuses of #patents and how submarine patents were eventually sunk by a case in 02004 (laches) and finally a case in 02021: “U.S. District Judge Rodney Gilstrap tossed out a $308.5 million patent-infringement verdict against Apple, Inc. Judge Gilstrap found the plaintiff intentionally delayed its application (originally filed in the 1980s). The resultant patents didn’t start issuing until 2010. (...) The plaintiff, Personalized Media [Gilbert Hyatt], holds hundreds of patents and asserts them against Apple, Google, Netflix and others based on decades old technology. (...) The patent asserted against Apple granted in 2012 from a filing date in the 1980s.”
#PNG doesn’t support uncompressed image data, only deflated data. #file-format
Yeah, even #RFC 2083 #PNG didn’t support uncompressed image data: “Compression method is a single-byte integer that indicates the method used to compress the image data. At present, only compression method 0 (deflate/inflate compression with a 32K sliding window) is defined. All standard PNG images must be compressed with this scheme. The compression method field is provided for possible future expansion or proprietary variants.” #file-format
In 01999 people thought #PNG was dead! #file-format
The #Star-Trek episode introducing the Borg was “Q Who?”, aired 01989-05-05. “The critical reception has been positive, with the episode described as the first “great episode” of the series.[1] It was nominated for three Emmy Awards, winning two.” #history
outlier detection/#anomaly-detection Python library
many beautiful images of "nastaliq" #Arabic #calligraphy
30V 95A N-MOSFET for 58¢ in quantity 100.
Simon Cozens wrote an #ebook on #fonts and layout and typography
Cozens’s #fonts #ebook has a section on the #history of #METAFONT and why it didn’t go viral among typographers. Unfortunately it doesn't mention le Romain du Roi or Hershey fonts.
#news from 02014 of a “colossal cannibal great white shark” or something that ate a 3-meter great white shark they stuck a tracker on.
"safe-npm" is an #npm installer that imposes a 90-day “#cooldown” on installing NPM packages for #security.
but #npm has a --before flag you can use for a #cooldown for #security.
#Cory-Doctorow predicts "surveillance pricing" where individually identifiable consumers are charged prices based on the seller's assessment of how much they can afford to pay, and says it's already happening somewhat: “a McDonald’s ventures portfolio company called #Plexure offers drive-through restaurants the ability to raise the price of your regular order based on whether you’ve recently received your paycheck.”
“RAM prices have skyrocketed globally in 2025, with industry officials pointing to explosive demand from AI data centers as the primary cause. Mainstream DDR5 memory modules now cost at least twice what they did in mid-2025, and overall #DRAM contract prices were a stunning 171.8% higher in the third quarter of 2025 compared to a year prior.” #electronics #hardware #pricing #news #toread
Dave Barry has a Substack. #humor
#Zig is moving from #GitHub to #Codeberg because #Microsoft. “Putting aside GitHub’s relationship with ICE, it’s abundantly clear that the talented folks who used to work on the product have moved on to bigger and better things, with the remaining losers eager to inflict some kind of bloated, buggy JavaScript framework on us in the name of progress. Stuff that used to be snappy is now sluggish and often entirely broken.”
#Zig’s new hosting
#SirCmpwn apparently put up this anti-Stallman hit-piece site. “Interesting to note that the A record for stallman-report.org was, up until a few days ago, the same as the A record for drewdevault.com.” Evidence comes from #certificate-transparency data.
a hitpiece on #SirCmpwn accusing him of having lolicon
#SirCmpwn claiming to have “read most of” his own anonymous hitpiece on Stallman
“If such a patent had existed in 1862 when Les Misérables was published, the novel would have infringed all three claims - all these things happened to Jean Valjean in the novel. Hugo could have been sued, and would have lost. The novel could have been prohibited - in effect, censored - by the patent holder.” Stallman on software #patents in 02005.
#explorable-explanations of Bézier curves for #graphics
very nice #math #video about deriving the derivative of ln x, for example using implicit differentiation in calculus.
a tiny #SSH server, 42K static stripped. “All AI slop.” Supports “ChaCha20-Poly1305 or Curve25519-donna. Single key exchange: Curve25519. Single host key type: Ed25519. Password authentication only (no public key auth). No compression. No algorithm negotiation (single fixed suite).” Lots of tips for building smaller binaries. #small-is-beautiful #crypto #security
“BebboSSH” is an #SSH 2 server and client for #Amiga #retrocomputing. curve25519-sha256, curve25519-sha256@libssh.org, ssh-ed25519, aes128-gcm@openssh.com, chacha20-poly1305@openssh.com, hmac-sha2-256, sha512. “It will work on an unaccelerated Amiga but establishing the connection takes about one minute”. #crypto #security